The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-11-10
GENERAL NEWS.
Doings Throughout the World and
the Nation.

the Nation.
Items Taken From the Latest TeIe-
graphic Reports on Subjects
of Interest.
Father John Bapst, the noted Jesuit,
is dead.
The political situation in France is
still critical.
Postal affairs at Vancouver City have
become very much mixed.
Gounod directed the 5OOth perform
ance of Faust in Paris last week.
The bodies of twenty-five victims of
the Vernon disaster have been recov-
cred.
The schooner Ocean Bird has sunk
with ten persons, in the Pasquotank
river.
C. B. Brovnfield killed his wife, child
and brother-in-law, and then suicided, at
Louisville, Ky.
Four plantation hands were shot by
strikers in ambush On a louisiana plan
tation last week.
Two imbecile girls were burned to
death at Spencer, Ohio, last week, and
murder is suspected.
Joseph Bowers, an English!nan, was
fined $1,000 for embracing lady in the
streets Of Seattle last week.
It is reported that Lord Stanley will
succeed the Marquis oil Lansdowne as
governor general of Canada.
Jenny Lind, the celebrated Swedish
singer, is dead, aged IS years. She had
been seriously i'll for some weeks.
A two-year-old child Of Emil Hansen
was burned to death, with his fathers
dwelling, at Fresno, Cal, last week.
At Sandy Hook, successful expert
ments in firing nitro-glycerine shells
from cannon were made last Friday.
John Ecdel Shot his wife, set fire to
the house, and sutfocated his two chill
dren, at Hebron, Conn, last Thursday.
At Opelika, Ala, last Sunday
night, a mob Of masked men broke into
the jail and lynched George Hart, the
colored murderer.
A single highwayman robbed the north
and south mail-coaches between st.
Johns and Navajo, in Arizona, at mid
night, Monday last.
William Buchanan's arm was taken Off
by flying pieces of a bursting saw, at Cor
Wallis, Or, and he did not know lie was
hurt for some seconds.
The bodies of the three railroad men
killed by the explosion OF a locomotive at
The Needles, Ariz., have been sent to
their homes for interment.
The business of Isador Cohnfeld of
New York the largest dealer in ostrich
feathers in the United States, has been
placed in the hands of trustees.
The contract for d. G. Corbin's new
steamer, now building in a bay near
Coeur d'Alene, specifies that it shall be
ready for the trial trip December l.
Gen. A. T. Owens died in Philadel-
phia last Sunday afternoon. He rem
dered distinguished military service on
the union side during the late war.
The stockmen of Arizona claim thai
they have been Disseminated against by
the legislature, and have organized to Sc
cure the repeal of the obnoxious laws.
The jury in the case Of "Blinky'' Nor
gan, on trial at Ravenna, O., for the MUIR
der of Detective Hulligen, has returned
a verdict Of murder in the first degree.
Mrs Anna Sachs, who threw pan
cake at Mrs. Cleveland during the presi-
dents visit to St. Louis, Mo-, was
released on appeal by the payment
of SIS.
It has been learned that Jose Cutter
rez, major domo of Jacobo Yrisarri's
sheep ranch, near Albuerquerque, N. NJ.
was killed by an American for causes un
known.
A cablegram from Meclesfeld, Eng.
announces the death of John Ryle. He
was the father of the silk industry IL
this country, and was on visit to hi
\ birthplace.
The dead body of John Mcconnell
the missing confidential clerk of J. Hahn
of Sacramento, was found near Turlock
last Thursday; death resulted from dos
of laudanum.
The supreme court has decided tha